This Week In History 9/1/22
Five years ago, 2017• Lightning strikes cause hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clay County schools, including the loss of a $159,000 fire alarm system at Doctors Inlet Elementary.• Green …
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This Week In History 9/1/22
Five years ago, 2017
• Lightning strikes cause hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clay County schools, including the loss of a $159,000 fire alarm system at Doctors Inlet Elementary.
• Green Cove Springs learns payment for Hurricane Matthew damage may be delayed by the more-recent flooding in Southeast Texas from Hurricane Harvey.
• A mural depicting a frog sitting inside the spring at Spring Park is finished by artist Anthony Hooper at the Green Cove Springs Library.
10 years ago, 2012
• Works starts on the First Coast Expressway from Interstate 10 to Blanding Boulevard.
• A man’s body was discovered inside a submerged minivan in Black Creek near the Main Street boat ramp in Middleburg.
• Plans are put on hold by the school board on whether it will ask voters to decide whether superintendents should be elected or appointed.
• Although $1.4 million in federal assistance is on the way to Clay County, residents learn there’s still time to apply for relief following Tropical Storm Debby.
20 years ago, 2002
• The school district learns 61% of its schools were rated as ‘A’ schools by the Florida Department of Education.
• A 10-year-old girl escapes a wound-be abduction by running to a neighbor’s house.
• Green Cove Springs’ Jack Farrington, a World War II B-17 co-pilot who was shot down in Europe, finish receives his Purple Heart from Sen. Bill Nelson.
30 years ago, 1992
• The Board of County Commission reluctantly agrees to spend $150,000 for dirt to fortify one of the walls around a retention pond at the Rosemary Hill Landfill.
• Michael Scott Haley and a juvenile were arrested in Green Cove Springs after they were caught with a dead deer outside of hunting season.
• Clay County Extension Horticultural Agent Ray Zerba is honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents in Little Rock, Arkansas.
40 years ago, 1982
• Sen. Lawton Chiles is the guest speaker at the Clay County Democratic dinner dance.
• Green Cove Springs Mayor George Killian hand delivers a letter to Rep. Bill Chappell opposing any new plans to build low-income housing in the city.
• Clay County teachers vote, 704-5, to ratify a new contract.
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